Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189698 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP09/17
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper makes several important contributions to the literature about nonparametric instrumental variables (NPIV) estimation and inference on a structural function h0 and its functionals. First, we derive sup-norm convergence rates for computationally simple sieve NPIV (series 2SLS) estimators of h0 and its derivatives. Second, we derive a lower bound that describes the best possible (minimax) sup-norm rates of estimating h0 and its derivatives, and show that the sieve NPIV estimator can attain the minimax rates when h0 is approximated via a spline or wavelet sieve. Our optimal sup-norm rates surprisingly coincide with the optimal root-mean-squared rates for severely ill-posed problems, and are only a logarithmic factor slower than the optimal root-mean-squared rates for mildly ill-posed problems. Third, we use our sup-norm rates to establish the uniform Gaussian process strong approximations and the score bootstrap uniform confidence bands (UCBs) for collections of nonlinear functionals of h0 under primitive conditions, allowing for mildly and severely ill-posed problems. Fourth, as applications, we obtain the first asymptotic pointwise and uniform inference results for plug-in sieve t-statistics of exact consumer surplus (CS) and deadweight loss (DL) welfare functionals under low-level conditions when demand is estimated via sieve NPIV. Empiricists could read our real data application of UCBs for exact CS and DL functionals of gasoline demand that reveals interesting patterns and is applicable to other markets.
Subjects: 
Series 2SLS
Optimal sup-norm convergence rates
Uniform Gaussian process strong approximation
Score bootstrap uniform confidence bands
Nonlinear welfare functionals
Nonparametric demand with endogeneity
JEL: 
C13
C14
C36
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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